Awards: New York Financial Writers’ Association Honors STAT News
Fri, Nov. 7, 2025
By Steve Barnes
The New York Financial Writers’ Association awards its 2025 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism to STAT News for "Denied by AI," a four-part series reported by Casey Ross and Bob Herman... (W)right On Communications president and founder Julie Wright receives the 2025 Andy Mace Award for Outstanding Contribution in Public Relations by the San Diego Press Club... Ghidotti, a Little Rock-based public relations and content marketing agency, earned five international honors at the 2025 Public Relations Global Network Best Practice Awards.
In accepting the top honor at PRSA's ICON conference in Washington, D.C. this week, HUNTER CEO Grace Leong stressed that the greatest threat to truth isn't the lies we can spot, but the comforting myths we choose to believe.
The Public Relations Society of America, Los Angeles Chapter names ChavezPR CEO Stephen Chavez as its Public Relations Professional of the Year... Montieth & Company received two distinctions at the 2025 MarCom Awards, which are administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals... The Darnell Works Agency is named PR Agency of the Year in Corporate LiveWire’s 2025 Global Innovation & Excellence Awards.
The Washington Women in Public Relations names Fors Marsh VP, public impact and resilience Natalie Adler Woman of the Year at its annual luncheon on Oct. 3... Champion came in at #6 for the second consecutive year in Entrepreneur magazine’s Franchise 500 Top Suppliers list... Junipr Public Relations receives the Best of Skyline Award, which is awarded by PRSA Chicago.
TIME magazine editor Sam Jacobs was presented with the Daniel J. Edelman award for Social Impact at PRSA-NY's 2025 Big Apple Awards on Thursday, Sept. 18 at Sony Hall in Midtown Manhattan.
Feintuch Communications and NCSolutions take home four trophies at PRSA-NY’s 2025 Big Apple Awards... rbb Communications EVP Sandra Ericson has been named the 2025 recipient of the Bill Adams Lifetime Achievement Award by PRSA Miami... Montieth & Company is named Top Agency Workplace for the second consecutive year on PR Daily’s 2025 Top Agencies List... Pugh & Tiller receives Best PR Agency and Best Web Design Firm honors in The Maryland Daily Record’s 2025 Reader Rankings awards... Impact PR & Communications takes first place on CommPRO’s Top 10 US Public Relations and Communications Companies list. 
Makovsky + Company chairman and CEO Ken Makovsky will receive the Page Distinguished Service Award during the Page Annual Conference on Sept. 28... Ripley PR, which works with clients in the franchising and home service industries, is recognized as a top franchise supplier by Franchise Business Review, winning a bronze award in FBR’s 2025 Employee Satisfaction Awards.
The Stevie Awards name Cathay Financial as Organization of the Year in their 2025 (22nd Annual) International Business Awards... Durée & Company was recognized as Fort Lauderdale Magazine’s Best PR Agency of 2025 in the gold category for the third consecutive year. 
New York Women in Communications will present its Trailblazer Awards Tuesday, Sept. 16 at Forbes on Fifth in New York City....Montieth & Company is named a finalist in the 2025 Nonprofit Communications Awards of PR Daily... The University of Alabama’s Plank Center for Leadership in Commnunications will honor Edelman global chief people and culture officer Lisa Sepulveda with its Legacy Award.
Montieth & Company takes home a Gold Award for website design and development from the dotCOMM Awards... Baker Public Relations founder and CEO Megan Baker is among this year’s Women Who Mean Business honorees, which are part of the Albany Business Review’s Women in Leadership program... Ripley PR is named a finalist for the Franchise Business Review’s 2025 FBR Employee Satisfaction Awards.
ROKK Solutions takes home a Platinum Award at the dotCOMM Awards... Crosby Marketing Communications, which has offices in Annapolis, MD and Washington, DC, is recognized by Baltimore Business Journal as the #1 largest advertising agency and #1 PR firm in the region... Ripley PR, a global agency specializing in the skilled trades, manufacturing, B2B technology and franchising, is named the 2025-2026 PR Agency of the Year in the Southeast United States by the Corporate LiveWire Prestige Awards... Ghidotti Communications founder and CEO Natalie Ghidotti is named to the Public Relations Society of America’s College of Fellows.
Landis Communications president and CEO Sean Dowdall is selected by the San Francisco Business Times as a 2025 Outstanding Voices and Business of Pride Honoree... Violet PR, which works with clients in the economic development and real estate sectors, is named to Inc.’s 2025 Best Workplaces list... Amendola, which is part of Supreme Group, earns Hermes Creative Awards and The Swaay Health Award. 
New York Women in Communications will present the 2022 Matrix Awards on October 26 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in Manhattan... The Public Relations Student Society of America is teaming with the News Literacy Project on the 2023 Bateman Case Study Competition... The Best PR Leader Regional Awards are launched by the World Communications Forum Association (WCFA). O’Dwyer’s and PR Newswire are partners... Washington Women in Public Relations announces the three finalists for its 33rd annual Washington PR Woman of the Year Award.
SKDKnickerbocker partner Anita Dunn tops the Observer PR Power 50, which was publioshed today, for the role that the longtime Democratic operative played in the Biden/Harris campaign. Jon Silvan, CEO of Global Strategy Group, and Sally Susman, executive VP/chief corporate affairs officer at Pfizer, rank next.
The Lisbon PR Awards, which honors categories such as brand activation, media relations and integrated marketing, has extended its entry submission date to June 22... Dragon Horse Ad Agency’s Recycle campaign for the Collier County Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Division in southwestern Florida earns Silver Telly Award... R&J Strategic Communications' Rebecca Smith honored by New Jersey Advertising Club.
Cannes Lions, which last month pushed back its 2020 festival of creativity from June to October 26-30 due to the "challenging circumstances" presented by the coronavirus pandemic, has now pulled the plug on the 2020 festival.
PRSA-NY has postponed the 2020 Big Apple Awards, originally scheduled for June 16, to Sept. 30. The award entry deadline has been pushed back to Friday, June 5.
Richard Edelman will become the first PR firm executive to be inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame of the American Advertising Federation. 
